Yellow City? Spineless Cowards Almost Everywhere in DC

But more important, the episode illustrated an essential truth about the state of American politics: at this point, the guiding principle of one of our nation's two great political parties is spite pure and simple. If Republicans think something might be good for the president, they're against it — whether or not it's good for America."

Democrats have the power. But they have weak, cowardly, DLC thinking people in places of power. Rahm Emanuel might have been the tough guy when the Dems were a minority, but he failed the Democrats, funding blue-dogs against real progressives in Democratic primaries, castrating the party in the process. His toughness was a sellout to the populist principles the Democratic party represented with people like Franklin Roosevelt.

Obama has the first real chance to make far reaching changes since Roosevelt was in power. He needs people with courage around him. That means he needs to get rid of the Clinton people he started his presidency with. Sure, they were the only Democrats with experience in the White House, which is the usual justification. But they have hurt, not helped him. He's made too many terrible appointments-- Geithner and Summer are disastrous, even obscene examples of appointing wolves to guard the hen house. The same has been done inagriculture, food and elsewhere. We have to assume that his senior advisers played a major role in these decisions.

Maybe we should just change the name from White House to Yellow House. Either that or a lot of Americans need to get off their asses and start making a lot of noise. Michael Moore's new movie sent me a message. It's time for a revolution in America-- for people to rise up and demand change. Moore didn't pull any punches. I'm with him. It's time for our elected representatives-- the majority who were elected in 2008-- to join with Alan Grayson in speaking up and out, and using the power they were given, instead of snivellingly trying to beg one New England senator to throw her voteat a version of health care that does not deserve to be passed.

There are, as Grayson has said, knuckle dragging Neanderthals out there. But perhaps worse, there are spineless mice. Time to throw them out or morph them into fully spined beings who take ownership of their power and have the courage to do the right thing.